FINANCE AND ACCOUNTING FOR DECISION-MAKING - ONLINE
FINANCE AND ACCOUNTING FOR DECISION-MAKING - ONLINE Through this course, you will learn accounting and financial principles and utilize these skills to be a better leader. Strengthen your decision-making process and gain a better understanding of finances and budgeting to make confident decisions in your organization. In this course, you will use small business examples to demonstrate how to create and evaluate budgets and raise money for your organization. You will use these foundational skills to learn how to account for operations and assess performance. By doing so, you will gain a deeper understanding of how to invest in growth. Topics Covered • • • • •
Building a Budget Raising Capital Financial Statements Evaluating a Performance Business Valuation and Growth
Certificate Program This course is a part of the MBA Foundations: Your Access to Business Foundations certificate. Participants who complete the MBA Foundations certificate will receive a $1,500 scholarship applicable towards the tuition of any of the four MBA programs at the University of Utah.* *To qualify for the scholarship, participants must apply for the MBA program and be admitted. The scholarship is eligible for up to 18 months after completing the MBA Foundations certificate.
I Need This Program Because:
My Organization Needs This Program Because:
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I want to be able to use my knowledge to make databased decisions I need accounting and financial principles to succeed in my position or grow in my company I aspire to have a better understanding of financial statements, budgeting, and raising capital
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We need to make better data-based financial decisions We want to grow our company, invest in growth, and evaluate performance We want to develop our leaders to understand finance and accounting better
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Anyone who want to better understand the financial considerations of starting, running, and growing a business Managers who do not have a solid grasp of the financial portion of leadership. Leaders who want to make better data-driven financial decisions
Modules Building a Budget
Evaluating a Performance
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The Budgeting Process Different Approaches to Budgeting Building an Example Budget
Evaluating Financials Variance Analysis New Projections
Raising Capital
Buisness Valuation and Growth
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Initial Investment Loans Net Present Values Cost of Capital
Principles of Business Valuation Growth and Valuation
Financial Statements • • • • •
Accounting for Operations Determining COGS (Cost of Goods Sold) Recognizing Revenue Depreciating Fixed Assets Managing Cash Flow
Presenting Faculty | Brian Cadman, Ph.D. Brian Cadman earned his undergraduate degree from Harvard University and his Ph.D. in Accounting from the University of Oregon. Before joining the faculty at the University of Utah, Professor Cadman was on the faculty at the Kellogg School of Management and The Wharton School. Professor Cadman’s research focuses on the use and implications of accounting information on compensation design and the role of external monitors and other governance mechanisms.
THE ECCLES DIFFERENCE The David Eccles School of Business enrolls about 6,000 students in its eight undergraduate majors, four MBAs, seven other specialized graduate programs, one Ph.D. program, and executive education curricula. It is also home to seven institutes and centers that support an ecosystem of entrepreneurship, technology, and innovation, including the Lassonde Entrepreneur Institute, Ken C. Gardner Policy Institute, Sorenson Impact Center, and more. Our faculty members boast impressive professional and educational backgrounds and hold Ph.D.s from esteemed universities including the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, Northwestern University’s Kellogg School, Harvard Business School, Stanford Graduate School of Business, and University of California at Berkeley’s Haas School.
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